Biomedical and Medical Informatics (BMI) is a very dynamic field
undergoing rapid evolution and centrally featured in health reforms across
Europe. Emerging technologies in BMI are central to making healthcare more
personalised, precise, reliable, safer and cost effective. The increased
interest in BMI education and training is leading to transformative trends
in creating new educational programs at higher education institutions in
Europe offering a BMI degree. New emerging interdisciplinary domains are
being added to the curriculum offering additional possibilities and
challenges for engineers and system scientists to be involved, but at the
same time imposing new demands on core teaching and learning competences.

The development and implementation of the Centre-BMI to support
educational process and courses appropriately addresses this pressing and
real problem. This Centre will exploit new innovative cloud-based
technology to support the creation and delivery of new courses/subjects in
BMI that is complex and multidisciplinary. Courses will be offered both at
the undergraduate and postgraduate levels to address a wide spectrum of
core competency requirements. The Centre will provide an invigorating
environment for the cooperation of technical, medical universities, and
enterprises in BMI that will provide a pool of supplementary expertise,
skills, and competences in this area. Both universities and enterprises’
contemporaneous participation in the project fosters a new trend of
integrated medicine and IT educational provision relevant for the
definition of an emerging innovative BMI-related professional profile that
is well sought after by enterprises. This Centre will be open to other
non-consortium partners that would like to be involved in cooperative
activities helping to ensure the project’s impact and sustainability.

Organisation name

Country

Zilinska Univerzita v Ziline (UNIZA)

Slovakia

Leeds Beckett University (LBU)

UK

Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics of the
Technical University of Braunschweig (TUB-PLRI)